TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - Burning Issue -- The Politicization of a Bushfire
JO  - International journal of mass emergencies and disasters
A1  - Robbins, J. R.
SP  - 325
EP  - 340
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
N2  - The Stirling bushfire of 1980 produced the first substantial claim for disaster liability against a South Australian local authority. In the absence of precedent and clear rules of process, this developed into a long and costly legal battle lasting nine years and then developed into a political conflict between the Council and the ruling Labor State government. The community is riven by discord about the terms of settlement. A positive outcome has been the establishment of a local Government Association Mutual Liability Scheme which indicates the possibility of local government collaboration as an alternative to a state-local relationship with its concomitant conflict.<p />
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SN  - 0280-7270
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -